A DAW newbie.

Since I have been here there has been a lot of threads and posts on DAWs and MIDI.

I have also unsuccessfully dabbled with a MIDI keyboard and different trial versions of a few DAWs.

Well I have bit the bullet and downloaded Cakewalk from the BandLab site and bought a Behringer UMC204D, connected by Kross 2 up to everything and how I managed it I do not know but some how I have actually got it all to work.

Now I need to learn more.

Can anyone recommend a specfic Cakewalk tutorial series, preferrably one that does not start with ..... hey wassup.

Started the plug in editor and connected up the Kross 2 via USB, powered it up and it as seen OK.

Started Cakewalk, went into Preferences and pointed Cakewalk to the Korg VST Plug in folder.

Started plug in manager and it showed up OK.

Started a black project, created a MIDI track, set the Kross to a Strings instrument voice and started recording a backing track, recorded four bars, stopped recording and edited the 4 bar clip to get timings spot on, trimmed clip to precisely 4 bars, then set up loop and dragged it to 52 bars in length.

Played back and all was great.

Created new MIDI track changed to an organ and started to record the melody only to find that what was the strings in the previous is now also an organ. So after reselecting the strings and selecting the looped clip I tried locking the data

Went back to the New MIDI track and after changing the Kross to organ started recording only to find the looped track again only producing organ sounds.

What am I doing wrong, I currently do not know.

Then tried to use inbuilt Cakewalk VSTs as per an online tutorial only to not find any.

I meant to play that note!

It sounds like you may have the two tracks going to the same MIDI channel. Check their MIDI output settings to make sure you're sending them to different channels, otherwise if you change the voice used to play one track it will most likely change the voice used to play back the other track.

There are exceptions, such as this if you've got Bank Select and Program Change events embedded within the tracks. Usually they would be placed at the beginning of the track, as Gary/happyrat1 said. But if you're going to loop part of a track then you might need to make sure to put a Bank Select and Program Change at the beginning of the looped section.

The simpler solution is to just have each track going to different MIDI channels.

The system seems that the Korg Plug in Editor is used to transfer data to Cakewalk.

Before your replies were posted, I did some button pushing and got the strings playing on one track, I then added the melody line using tubular bells and it worked, strings played on its track and tubular bells played on its track.

Added another track and selected a Bass and started to record and found the two other tracks were now Bass as well